by Sydney Smith on Feb 02, 2016
New Ombudsman for Canadian Broadcasting Corp’s French Services
The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. has named Guy Gendron its next ombudsman for French Services, CBC / Radio-Canada. CBC also has...
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by Sydney Smith on Feb 01, 2016
Australian News Outlet Broke Suicide Reporting Guidelines, Trains Staff after complaint
The Pakenham Gazette, a weekly Australian newspaper, included too much information about a young man's suicide, didn't contact his family before...
by Sydney Smith on Jan 31, 2016
Colombian Newspaper fires Editor for Plagiarizing from NYTimes
The Medellin-based El Colombiano's international editor Diana Carolina Jimenez plagiarized from the New York Times, the paper admitted. After a review, El Colombiano...
by Sydney Smith on Jan 30, 2016
Eritrea Doesn’t Make Men have 2 Wives, Satire Story Duped African Media
Several African news sites including News 24 and Sahara Reporters were apparently duped by a satire story claiming that Eritrea passed a...
by Sydney Smith on Jan 29, 2016
Top Bloomberg Editor Kathy Kiely quits over Policy on covering Michael Bloomberg
The Washington news director at Bloomberg Politics, Kathy Kiely, quit her job over the company's policy about covering the possible presidential candidacy...
by Sydney Smith on Jan 28, 2016
Central European News sues BuzzFeed over ‘King of Bulls**t News’ Claims
European news organization Central European News and its founder Michael Leidig are suing BuzzFeed for defamation for $11 million, The Hollywood...
by Sydney Smith on Jan 28, 2016
Why was Israel replaced by Palestine in NPR Map? NPR Editor’s Note explains unpublishing
National Public Radio deleted a map illustration of the Middle East and North Africa that labeled Israel as Palestine and...
by Sydney Smith on Jan 27, 2016
Melissa Click Charged with 3rd Degree Assault over Mizzou Protest
Melissa Click, the assistant professor at the University of Missouri's communications department who called for "muscle" during a November student...
by Sydney Smith on Jan 26, 2016
Who was Jack the Ripper? UK Mail on Sunday Corrects after Saying Serial Murderer was IDed ‘Beyond Reasonable Doubt’
Did the Mail on Sunday identify who the Victorian-era serial killer Jack the Ripper really was? Apparently not. The newspaper published a...
by Sydney Smith on Jan 25, 2016
New Press Regulator in England to get $5.5 million funding from Max Mosley’s Trust
UK print regulator the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO) may soon have some competition. The Independent Monitor for the Press...